Wrapper for cooking articles of irregular outline



PATENTED F113. 2, 1904'.

L. HORN.

WRAPPER FOR COOKING ARTICLES OF IRREGULAR OUTLINE.

APPLIdu'mH FILED SEPT. 16, 1903.

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PATENT OFFICE.

LOUISE HORN, OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 751,171, dated February2, 1904,

Application filed September 18, 1903. Serial No. 173,654. (No model.)

To all whom, it party concern:

Be it known that I, LOUISE HORN, a citi- Zen of the United States,residing at Detroit, county of Wayne, State of Michigan, have invented acertain new and useful Improvement in Vrappers for Cooking Articles ofIrregular Outline; and I declare the following to be a full, clear, andexact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilledin the art to which it pertains to make and use the same, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of thisspecification.

This invention relates to wrappers for cooking meat and similar articlesof irregular outline that are preferably cooked in an inclosing case orwrapper.

In the cooking of meat, especially the boiling of hams, it has beenfound that the cooked article is much better in taste and appearance andthat there is a considerable saving of material if the ham be cooked inclose confinement and be continued in close confinement after thecooking and until it has cooled and set. Unless provision of this kindis made a very large percentage of the useful part of the ham escapes inthe cooking-water and is lost.

It is the object of this invention to provide a case which can be easilyand readily wrapped closely around the article and the article will besecured therein in a way to prevent the escape of the substance or alarge portion of the substance which would escape without such wrapping.

In the drawings, in Figure 1 the wrapping is indicated in its unfoldedcondition. Fig. 2 shows the cloth folded.

It consists of a rectangular piece, preferably a nearly square piece,oftightly-woven canvas A, to the outside of which are secured a number ofstraps 1 2 3 a, which are parallel to a diagonal a b of the rectangleand are arranged in pairs equally distant from the diagonal line. Thereare also secured to the cloth other straps 5 and 6, parallel to thesecond diagonal 0 d and spaced equally on each side thereof. These alsoare in pairs or in a pair, as it is not generally found necessary to usemore than a single pair of straps parallel to the diagonal 0 (Z, whereasthere should be at least four straps parallel to the diagonal a b. Eachof the straps is provided at one end with what is known as a tonguelessbuckle. The ends of the straps to which the buckles are securedpreferablydo not extend beyond the boundaries of the square of the clothand are close to the diagonal of the square which crosses the strap towhich the buckles belong.

With this construction of wrapper an article of very irregular outlinecan be so closely confined as to prevent the free passage of the juicesand melted fats to the outside of it. The article so constructed canalso be easily and readily cleansed from the adhering matter whichremains in contact with it after it has been once used and which must beremoved from it before it can be used again, as all such adhering matteris on the side of a smooth flat piece of cloth which is without a seamor a crevice to hold it, the only seam in the entire article being thatwhich is necessary to bind or hem the cloth and those stitchings whichare necessary to secure the straps to the cloth.

What I claim is 1. A cover for cooking articles of irregular outline,having in combination a rectangular cloth, a plurality of straps securedthereto parallel to a diagonal thereof and equally spaced on either sideof such diagonal, a second set of straps also secured to said cloth onthe same side thereof with the first set and parallel to anotherdiagonal of said cloth and crossing the first set at right angles, thesaid straps being provided with buckles at their ends, substantially asdescribed.

2. A cover for cooking articles of irregular outline, having incombination a rectangular cloth smooth on one side and provided on theother with two sets of straps which cross each other at right angles,each set of straps being parallel to a diagonal of said rectangularcloth and being secured thereto and having buckleterminated endswhich'do not extend beyond the boundaries of the cloth, substantially asdescribed.

In testimony whereof I sign this specification in the presence of twowitnesses.

LOUISE HORN.

Witnesses:

MAY E. KOTT, CHARLES F. BURTON.

